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‘Wow, it’s a real discovery’ as Claude cracks a 25-year NSA number mystery
For 25 years, cryptographers chased the origin of a handful of numbers the NSA handed to the U.S. government. An Anthropic research model traced them in less than…
Did Claude Help an Amateur Astronomer Find a New Planet?
A star 116 light-years away dims by a hair every 3.18 days. Pavel Rabtsevich, a 28-year-old product manager in Spain with no astronomy training and no telescope, says…
OpenAI just dropped hundreds more results on major math problems
OpenAI has put 722 manuscripts on GitHub. Together they claim solutions to, or progress on, 372 major math problems. Each paper still has to survive review by mathematicians.…
Anthropic’s biolab made a find it’s comparing to Crispr
It took nearly 1,000 Claude agents, 21 hours and 210 million tokens to turn up one odd repeating pattern in a pile of DNA. Anthropic now says that…
Healthcare AI’s real test isn’t the model, it’s integration
The models can already read a 300-page chart. That was never the hard part. What breaks in a hospital’s back office isn’t comprehension. It’s the fact that a…
How did AI plot a $15 million probe’s interstellar route to Alpha Centauri?
An 80,000-year trip is the optimistic version of this plan. That’s the number the Fermi Explorer Mission is working with. A nonprofit, announcing today, says it intends to…
AI Helped London Doctors Cut a Tumor Out of a Man’s Brain
There are no road signs inside your skull. That’s the problem a team of neurosurgeons in London handed to an AI tool in May, and it’s the line…
AI-redesigned intrabodies could open new paths against Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and MND
Antibodies have a charge problem. That’s the finding underneath a piece of research from the University of Essex, and it explains why decades of antibody work has mostly…
AI designed 300 viruses. Only 16 of them worked
Three hundred synthetic genomes went into E. coli. Sixteen came out as working viruses. That’s the number worth sitting with. Scientists at Stanford University and the Arc Institute…
